Featured Exhibitions
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide # 1, organized by Vivian Torres
About the Collection When thinking about this collection, I wanted to create...
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Jean McElvane's Pollinator Series
Sharing about the process behind her pollinator works,NIAD artist Jean McElvane says: "There...
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NIAD Main Gallery Exhibition // "Telling Stories Even in Our Dreams," organized by Liz Hernández
About the Exhibition Storytelling has been a constant in human history. When...
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Poems, Sara Malpass & Sara Hess // Blue Boy, Savannah, GA
Poems, Sara Malpass & Sara Hess Aunt Marge’s window looked out...
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Reflections: Portraits and Self-Portraits from NIAD Art Center at SSU
NIAD is proud to partner with Sonoma State University Art Gallery to...
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NIAD Annex Gallery Exhibition // "The Way We Are, Now"
We are thrilled to present “The Way We Are, Now,” an exhibition...
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"Ripples 3" organized by keen on art // UC Law, San Francisco
About the exhibition Curated by Esther Mallouh from keen on art, Ripples...
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"After Party" organized by Glen Helfand
About the Exhibition I’ve always loved the word ‘after’ when used as...
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"Phantasmagoria" organized by Cody Tumblin
About the Exhibition As your eyelids grow heavy and sleep begins to...
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"Just Do It" organized by Travis Meinolf
About the Exhibition Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to...
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"PROCESS" organized by Car Nazzal
About the Exhibition This exhibition is all about process. The works selected...
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NIAD Annex Gallery // "Now Presenting: New Artists of NIAD"
About the Exhibition In the 42 years that the NIAD Studio has...
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NIAD Main Gallery Exhibition // "care and respite" organized by Kari Simonsen and Simon Tran
Finding care and respite through positive redirection. Changing your mother’s bandages, affirmations...
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Alameda and Contra Costa DDS Council Awards Collection
The following artworks represent NIAD Art Center at the Alameda and Contra...
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"Karen May: Artforum Interventions" organized by Jess Frost of The Arts Center at Duck Creek
About the Exhibition The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to...
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"Encore! Superstars from Win Win 12"
"I do believe that our art is the most...
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"The Getaway" organized by Zach Clark
About the Exhibition The Getaway is a collection of 15 pieces...
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Summer Hum: More Selections from the Win Win 12 Silent Auction
The Win Win 12 Silent Auction is open for bidding, and things...
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"Dog and Wolf" organized by Tess Rubinstein
About the Exhibition There’s an old folk saying in France, l’heure entre...
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Made of Stars: More Selections from the Win Win 12 Silent Auction
The Win Win Silent Auction is now open for bidding, and you...
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Rooted in Richmond, an Exhibition in the Office Suite of Mayor Eduardo Martinez
A companion exhibition to We Make Art in Richmond, this collection highlights...
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Selections from the Win Win 12 Silent Auction
The Win Win 12 Silent Auction is open for bidding! Wondering where...
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"The Poetics of Feeling" organized by Vivian Torres
About the Exhibition “Art... was for me a realm where every imposed...
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"Separating Sand" organized by Lena Gustafson
About the Exhibition Separating Sand represents a grouping of 13 paintings and drawings...
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NIAD Main Gallery Exhibition // "We Make Art in Richmond"
About the exhibition All of the artists in the exhibition, We Make...
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"The Brain in Bloom" organized by SFSU's Exhibition Design Class
Chapter 1: A Mindful MetamorphosisChapter 2: Cognitive CareChapter 3: Spring As Dance ...
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"Green Fuse" organized by Chris Thorson
About the exhibition When things fuse they blend into a single entity....
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"good grief" organized by Jackie Clay
I have read about grief as though it were a parade we...
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NIAD Annex Gallery Exhibition // "Sisters Shall Be: Raven & Shana Harper"
About the exhibition Words from Raven Harper: "When you come to NIAD,...
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"How the World Becomes World" organized by KC Bull
About the Exhibition This title comes from the writer Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s essay...
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"ATOMS," organized by Diego Leclery (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Everybody freaked out on acid. You’ve read a bunch...
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"ART COLOR" organized by Danielle Fox of SLATE
About the Exhibition The exhibition ART COLOR takes Sara Malpass’ print as...
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NIAD Main Gallery Exhibition // "Radiant Souls" Organized by Fernanda Martinez
About the exhibition Our memories are constituted by faces, feelings, colors, shapes,...
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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
Cue the NFL tune...you know the one. We are proud to cheer on...
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"XENIA'D" organized by Ted Barrow of The Place
Xenia is the Greek notion of a hospitality ritual, one in which...
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"Party Favors" // NIAD at Little Hill Lounge
On Friday, January 19th it’s an Arty Party NIAD takeover at the...
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"More Than Matter" organized by Josefin Lundahl of The Place (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition It is a rare luxury for us curators to...
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"The Pinocchio Moment" organized by Avner Chaim
About the Exhibition I have always felt that Pinocchio is a powerful allegory...
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"Gifts of Colorful Creativity," organized by Jonathan Valdivias and Rebecca Teague
“I love to give things that are very colorful!” —Jonathan Valdivias. NIAD Artist...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // Unbridled, organized by Piper Snow
Unbridled, organized by Piper Snow December 1, 2023 - January 19, 2024...
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"Gratitude - Thankfulness" organized by Fenwick & West (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition For more than six years, the law firm Fenwick has partnered with...
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"Unknown Possibilities" organized by Selby Sohn (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Sometimes I feel bound by the possible — that...
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"NIAD Potluck Party" organized by Steen Kjorlie (online exhibition)
"get up. get on the bus. go to NIAD. Don't even worry...
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Remembering Louie Spagnola
In Memoriam Louie Spagnola (1971-2023) The sweet sounds of Smokey Robinson,...
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SFMOMA Acquisitions 2023
On October 23, 2023 SFMOMA announced a historic acquisition that includes the...
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"Frames of Body, Frames of Mind" organized by Beth Krebs (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition How do we understand ourselves and the world around...
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Julio Del Rio Highlights
Julio Del Rio (b. 1988) NIAD is proud to announce that...
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Karen May Highlights
Karen May (b. 1950) NIAD is proud to announce that in October...
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"Singular Figures" organized by Pablo Cristi (online exhibition)
About Singular Figures Singular Figures is a grouping of work that focuses...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // Today is the Greatest, organized by Quickest Flip
NIAD Art Center, in partnership with Quickest Flip, is thrilled to announce...
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"Los Colores y la Música del Amor (The Colors and Music of Love)" organized by NIAD Virtual Studio artists (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition This exhibition was organized by NIAD virtual studio artists Luis...
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"Brand New Sun" organized by Rob I. Miller (online exhibition)
About the exhibition: "This collection was inspired by reflecting on my 22...
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"3,743 Dreams Not Remembered" // Eddie Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College organized by Liliana Herrera
3,743 Dreams Not Remembered Eddie Rhodes Gallery Contra Costa College, Art Building...
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"Large Dream Soul Memories" organized by Isaac Vazquez Avila (online exhibition)
About the exhibition: My paintings are infused with fragments of memories, elements...
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Autumn Artdrop // Painting & Ceramics (online collection)
We've gathered a selection of recent painted and ceramic work from our...
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"Roses are Red, or, See what Kitty can do without fighting the war?" organized by Liam Golden (online exhibition)
About the exhibition: What's better than listening to mind expanding tunes while...
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"For Choo Choo" organized by Maryam Yousif (online exhibition)
About the exhibition: "I went into my selection thinking about my son Lukas,...
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"Mud Pie Mansion" organized by Kristin Farr (online exhibition)
About the exhibition: Clay is the original art material and mud pies...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // OBJECT INSIDE OBJECT OUTSIDE INSIDE OBJECT OUTSIDE OBJECT organized by Andres Guerrero + GGLA
Opening Reception and Artist/Curator Talk: Saturday, August 19, 1-4 PM About the...
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"Water World" organized by Ivan Kudin (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Have you ever wondered what our world might have looked...
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"Untangling Webs: A Journey in Abstract Textiles" organized by Alexander Hernandez (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I chose textile works that embrace the beauty found...
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"Small Wonders" organized by kg (online exhibition)
About the exhibition: Small Wonders brings together materially hard and soft works...
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"Lemon Art Work" organized by Seymour Polatin (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition: 1,2,3,4,5,6 i'm walking on the sidewalk 1,2,3,4,5,6 i'm counting...
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The Rainbow Dancing in the Room organized by Liz Hernández (online exhibition)
Splitting sun rays, the rainbow dancing in the room. A prism pirouette,...
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"Richmond Artists Activate!" // Richmond Youth + NIAD Artists Banner Project
About the Exhibition This collection celebrates the spirit of community activism and...
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"Groovement" // An Exhibition in the Office Suite of Mayor Eduardo Martinez
Introducing Groovement, a collection of vibrant works that captures a piece of...
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"an echo carries texture" organized by Steph Kudisch (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition How is sound shaped by the forms it moves...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // "Exploring Arts Through Sound", organized by Luis Estrada, Rebecca Jantzen & Kiesha White
Gallery Reception Saturday June 10, 1 to 4pm, NIAD Art Center. About...
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"Everybody's My Friend" organized by NIAD's Art & Justice Class (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Carlota on Esme: “I like Esme’s painting and the...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // "Championship Belt"
About the exhibition This Summer, coming to NIAD’s 23rd Street Gallery, it's...
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"Into the Brightness: Artists from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth & NIAD" // Oakland Museum of California
NIAD is proud to participate in the major museum exhibition Into the...
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"Object of My Affection" organized by Lucy Gross (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition I decided to call it Object of My Affection....
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"Empty Kind Of Full" organized by Tara Neuffer (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition I like the in-between spaces in these works. They...
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"A NIAD Art Books Show" organized by NIAD artist Karen May (online exhibition)
A NIAD book of art. Let's make it A NIAD Art Books Show. There's...
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"The Shape We're in Feels Like the Colors of Hope" organized by Cynthia Branvall (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition It was a pleasure to spend time with the...
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"Golden Hour" organized by Poppy Dodge (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Golden Hour, the time in the late afternoon when...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // Danny Thach: Best Buddies
About the exhibition Danny Thach’s fascination with the work of Keith Haring...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // "a clearing", organized by Mel Prest
On view April 1 to May 20, 2023 Opening Reception + Artist...
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"Animal, Animal, Vegetable, Vegetable, Mineral, Mineral" organized by Nick Schutzenhofer (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition In the same vein as Don Baum's irreverent and...
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"Ripples 2" organized by keen on art // UC Law, San Francisco
About the exhibition Curated by Esther Mallouh from keen on art, Ripples 2 is...
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"Rainbow Cat Picnic" organized by Cynthia Ona Innis (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition The title of this exhibition comes from a piece...
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Enjoy the Silence // More Picks from the Win Win 11 Silent Auction Exhibition
Oh, the gentle joys of the Silent Auction: no paddles, no shouting numbers,...
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"Waking, Breathing, Making!" organized by Laura Kamian McDermott (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Wake up. Rub our hands together. Deep breath.... Get...
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"What a Wonderful World!" // An Exhibition in the Office Suite of Mayor Eduardo Martinez
This collection of artworks has been featured in the office suite of...
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"Puzzles in Print" organized by Delilah Ponton (online exhibiton)
About the exhibition I enjoyed looking through NIAD’s prints. Seeing the uniqueness...
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"Larger Than Life: S/Heroes, GOATs, and Other Legends" organized by Zoya Kocur (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Why are we fascinated by people and characters who...
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Win Win 11 Silent Auction Highlights (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition We are thrilled to share with you a peek...
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"Search Engine" organized by Diego Leclery (online exhibition)
About The Exhibition This exhibition is about transcendent forms. I looked through...
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“Subtle Sweetness” organized by Jamie Walsh (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As someone who easily gets wrapped up in my...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // "Memorias Grabadas", organized by Andrés Cisneros-Galindo
About the Exhibition Andres Cisneros Galindo has worked as a printmaker for...
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"I Dreamt the Sun Was in My Bed", organized by San Francisco State University’s Exhibition Design Class (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition As part of the class curriculum looking at curation,...
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Holiday Gift Guide // "Between Worlds" organized by Joey Enos (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Looking through the work of NIAD artists reminds me...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // Luz y Luxe: A NIAD Holiday Shop
NIAD's Exhibitions Team has been loading up the Annex Storefront with seasonal...
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NIAD is for Music Lovers: Holiday Gift Guide organized with Xiomara Rosales
NIAD Holiday Gift Guides: Each week we launch a fresh collection of...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // "NIAD Ink: 35 Years of Prints" organized by Andrés Cisneros-Galindo
On view in NIAD's Main Gallery through January 20, 2023. Gallery Reception Saturday...
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NIAD is for Animal Lovers: Holiday Gift Guide organized with Dorian Reid
About the exhibition "Every time I turn around, I see so much...
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"Making in Color" organized by Edwige Charlot (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Drawn by the use of color, form and surface,...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // Crossover
About the Exhibition Crossover is an apt title for this show, which will...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // What's Cookin'?! organized by Terri Moore
On view Friday November 4 through November 26 About the exhibition Food,...
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"A Stick In The Snow" organized by Joanna and Milo Moyer-Battick (online exhibition)
About the exhibition A Stick In The Snow comprises a body of...
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"All that is solid becomes vapor" organized by Emily Chao (online exhibition)
We long to remember our dreams upon waking Landscapes formed of memory...
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Follow the String: Cedars of Marin + NIAD // Marin MOCA
Follow the String is an exhibition developed in partnership with Cedars and NIAD Art Center,...
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"Blow Like Magic In Their Face And Vanish," organized by James Sterling Pitt (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition One afternoon in March, 2011 I sat with Billy...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // Feeling Language, organized by Kate Laster
About the exhibition This show is all about comfort text: resilience in...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // A Not So Common Iguana And Other Tails
About the exhibition "This collection presents tapestries woven in wool by me,...
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"Mash Up," organized by Kiera Lofgreen (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This online NIAD exhibition is an assembly of collage...
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"Told Through a Line" organized by Risa Lenore (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The thread holding this exhibition together is a black...
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"I Belong to Myself," organized by Maria Seda-Reeder (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Being an artist who helps bring new, radical ideas...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // Day Or Night It Looks Like Night, organized by Liliana Herrera
On view September 2 through 23 Friday, September 9, 1:00 pm //...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // Whales and Pencil Holders, organized by Emma Spertus
On view September 2 through 23 About the Exhibition When Peter Harris...
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"Face in the Crowd," organized by René Smith (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition The portrait of Bart by Esmeralda Silva inspired me...
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"I Wanna See All My Friends at Once," organized by Cone Shape Top (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Named after a line from the song “Go Bang!”...
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"Question Mark," organized by Betsy Odom (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This exhibition considers the feeling of waiting for the other...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // Works by Nathan Lam
On view August 5 through 26 Friday August 12, 1pm // Virtual...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // With You in Mind / Contigo en Mente, organized by Saif Azzuz
On view August 5 through 26 Friday August 12, 1pm // Virtual...
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"Living forces," organized by Fernanda Martinez (online exhibition)
About the exhibitionWe as living creatures are always in search of experiences...
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Me and My Gal // New NIAD Publication
This book began as an idea to gather together some of...
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"Touching," organized by Zachary Epcar (online exhibition)
About Touching Touching brings together a selection of works that expand, contract,...
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"A New Geometry," organized by e bond (online exhibition)
About the exhibition One of the many published definitions of Geometry feels to me...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // "A Little Bit of Everything," organized by Shantanice Swain
About the exhibition After a long hiatus, NIAD is bursting at the...
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"High Five," organized by Emma Spertus and Ember Avalos (online exhibition)
About the exhibition High Five = A greeting, an Expression of joy,...
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"Summer Break" organized by Matt Goldberg (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Sun-soaked characters, bizarre talismans, hammock relaxation, sensuous artworks that...
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RSVP for the Virtual Artist Talk + Exhibition Walkthrough // Win Win 11 Silent Auction Exhibition
Virtual Artist Talk + Exhibition Walkthrough Win Win 11 Silent Auction Exhibition...
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"Color As Energy Field," organized by Chinzalée Sonami (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Color feels essential right now, especially at this point...
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"Hurricane Dorian," organized by NIAD artist Dorian Reid (online exhibition)
“And then I started using my fists, boom boom boom, and then...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // "Raven Harper: Dear Mama"
Gallery Opening Saturday June 11 On view through June 24 Dear Mama is...
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Gifts + Merch
Mugs, gift cards, pins, tote bags, and other functional items made by NIAD Art...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // "Beyond the Yankee Doodle," organized by Antonia Dapena-Tretter
Virtual Artist Talk // Friday June 10, 1pm Opening Reception // Saturday June 11,...
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"Green Spaghetti," organized by Kayla Risko (online exhibition)
About Green Spaghetti The works in this exhibition share an adventurous and...
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Saves Nine, organized by Megan Kiskaddon (online exhibition)
About Saves Nine I’ve had a long affinity with textile works that...
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NIAD Annex Exhibition // And Then Some...
"Everything is very detailed work. Everybody here, they concentrate, they're very focused......
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Ripples, selected by Keen On Art // UC Hastings Law, San Francisco
About the exhibition Ripples is the first rotating art exhibit that will...
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In Love., organized by Meg Pohlod (online exhibition)
About In Love. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. Love is a...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // Miguel Chacon: Observer
Miguel Chacon prefers to take the role of witness to situations rather...
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Quiet, organized by Matthew Pawlowski (online exhibition)
About Quiet When I look at visual art I often think about...
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Me! Jonathan, selected by Bill Zindel and Liam Golden // ODC Theater
At once introspective and generously welcoming, Jonathan Valdivias's portraits seem to be...
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Creature Comfort, organized by Sydney Pfaff
About the exhibition Creature Comfort is a collection of animal-inspired works by...
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Can't Be Shook, organized by Alex Gartelmann (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The invitation to curate this exhibition initially felt like an...
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DESIRE DESIRE, organized by Diego Leclery (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Being brought up in a culture oriented towards consumption,...
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NIAD Gallery Exhibition // Superbloom, organized by Erin McCluskey Wheeler
About the exhibitionIt’s not a superbloom year. It’s not one of those...
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Many Happy Returns, selected by Bill Zindel & Liam Golden // ODC Theater
About the exhibition "I love to sing and I love to draw...
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Luxe, calme et volupté, selected by Lou Mo (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Henri Matisse painted Luxe, calme, et volupté more than a...
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DreamForms, selected by Lauren Ari and Julio Del Rio (online exhibition)
About the exhibitionThis online NIAD show is in conjunction with DreamForms, curated...
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Auctionauts (online exhibition)
Auctions are unpredictable animals: they can get noisy, tense, wildly out of...
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WIN WIN 10 Live Auction Preview! (online exhibition)
The WIN WIN 10 Live Auction begins during the event on Saturday March 5...
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Day or Night it Looks Like Night, organized by Liliana Herrera (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The pieces in this exhibition were selected in a...
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NIAD x Mills Building SF
A collection of works by NIAD Studio Artists displayed in the ground...
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Eternal Idol, organized by Emily Harris (online exhibition)
About Eternal Idol Eternal Idol, Rodin’s famous sculpture, was hewn in marble,...
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Voice Inside, organized by Sunila Bajracharya (online exhibition)
About the exhibition We all hear voices. Some come from inside, and...
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Murmuration, selected by Alisa Golden (online exhibition)
About the exhibition A murmuration is a flock of thousands moving together,...
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Innersense, ushered by Germán Herrera (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition What is expressed in this small selection of works...
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Relics for the Future, Organized by Jessica Snow
About the exhibition Relics for the Future takes as its point of...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition // LENS, Selected by NIAD's Exhibition Team
About the exhibition We offer a peek into the artistic explorations of...
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Dorian Reid's Afghan Blankets
"I started making afghans around November or December, and the reason I've...
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A Year Through the (Browser) Windows // NIAD's 2021 Online Exhibitions (online exhibition)
Back in 2014 we began asking artists, curators, literati, musicians, disability community...
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A Year Through the Windows (online exhibition)
About the collection The Windows Exhibitions are a pandemic-era innovation, born out...
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #6: WIN WIN 10 Sneak Preview, collected by Isabel X. Ortiz (online exhibition)
Our final NIAD Gift Guide of the season doubles as a sneak...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition // Menagerie on 23rd Street
About the exhibition The exhibition windows of NIAD on 23rd street are...
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #5, collected by Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh
About the collection Gift-giving can be so tricky! It can be hard...
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #4: "SISTER SISTER" selected by Amanda and Sarah Eicher
About the collection SISTER SISTER: a gift guide from one coast to the...
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #3: "The Zindel Collection" by Bill
The items in this Holiday Gift Guide are perfect for your friend...
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #2: "The Color of Happiness" collection by Rebecca Jantzen
ABOUT "THE COLOR OF HAPPINESS" COLLECTION "It was hard picking out [the...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Con Los Animales Estamos Conectados, Selected by Christo Oropeza
About the exhibition: I recently became a dog father of a...
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NIAD Holiday Gift Guide #1: "Mixed Media" collection by Samantha Kershnar
ABOUT THE "MIXED MEDIA" COLLECTION "Holidays bring family together. You remember people...
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Stories, curated by B. Wurtz
About the Exhibition For this exhibition for NIAD I didn’t want to...
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Memory, selected by Ling Shang (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition Memory can be buried deep in our mind. It...
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NIAD 23rd Street Gallery Exhibition: What's Blooming
The Exhibitions Team is thrilled to announce the return of our 23rd...
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A Firmament in the Midst of the Waters, selected by Jay Youngdahl (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Viewers can learn much from the work of NIAD...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: The Ultimate NIAD Hard-Core Horror Metal Art Show, Selected By Alan Perez
About the exhibition "Bonfires burning brightPumpkin faces in the nightI remember...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Mis Figuras Favoritas: Carlota Rodriguez & Erica Martinez
About the exhibition This month, our Exhibitions Team has selected a collection...
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NIAD SFMOMA MiNi Gallery
If you can't browse the MiNi Gallery at SFMOMA in person this...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Picnic, organized by Jessica Cadkin
About the exhibition Ice cream trucks, pool parties, and picnics evoke images...
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Edges of Attention, Selected By Canela Art Gallery (online exhibition)
About the exhibition We selected our favorite evocative works and put them...
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Super Powers, Selected By Aubrey Ingmar Manson (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As artists, we all have super powers. We can...
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Ravel, Selected By Danny Volk (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Ravel is an exhibition of two and three dimensional work...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Soft Material, Organized by Nan Collymore & Celia Lesh
About the exhibition Soft Material is a collaborative garment construction project, between...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Adornment, Selected by Max Kauffman
About the exhibition These ten artists imbue spirit into everyday objects. Facets...
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I See What You're Feeling, organized by Daniel Krakauer (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Have you ever met somebody whose emotions are so...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Art In Windows, Organized by NIAD + Richmond Main Street Initiative
About the exhibition Art In Windows, the annual storefront exhibitions program pioneered...
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Yielding, Selected By Ann Marguerite Tartsinis (online exhibition)
About the exhibition To yield is to submit to pressure, to give...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: To Make Home, selected by Simon Tran and Kari Simonsen
About the exhibition To Make Home is about how each of us...
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Warming, Selected By Good Buy Supply (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Warming A selection of works that embrace imperfect elements...
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Holding The Line, Selected By jill moniz (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The works in this exhibition use the line to...
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Cat Waterfall, Artist of the Month Series, Selected by Ann Meade (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Lots of workshops and places have employee of the month,...
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177 Years, Selected By Julia Goodman and Michael Hall (online exhibition)
About the exhibition 177 Years is a group show including multiple works by Lisa...
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"20 Continuous Lines," selected by Veronica DeJesus (online exhibition)
About the exhibition 20 continuous linesCommunication ConnectionsRelationships Model MakingCirclesFriendsFamily Grounding StonesVacations Finding...
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Every Sing, Selected By Jesse Malmed (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Every SingSome SingAny SingThis Sing Or what we might...
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Diverse Findings, Selected By Paulette Nichols (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Here is a picture by James Heartsill of...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Win Win 9
NIAD’s annual fundraiser, Win Win 9, is Saturday March 6, 2021. It's...
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MIND MAPPING, Selected By Minoosh Zomorodinia (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I'm interested in recording time and space, so I...
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Serotonin Ping, Selected By Zoë Taleporos (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Serotonin Ping is a collection of images that aspire to...
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Perfect Memory, Selected By Justin Clifford Rhody (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Our relationship with reality and life is that same...
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Group Chat, Selected By Kate Rhoades & Katy Kondo (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Since we're curating this show as a duo, we...
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Bookends, Selected By Ellen Lake (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Bookend (plural bookends) A heavy object or moveable support placed at...
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Purple Barbara, Selected By Richard Zimmerman (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The works in this exhibition move fluidly between letters,...
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Forest Of Fantasy, Selected By Bessie Kunath (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This collection of objects and images meanders through the...
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Other Side Of The Rainbow, Selected By Stephanie Hanor (online exhibition)
About the exhibition After a year of shared, global trauma, in the...
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Kiss----Kiss, Selected By Fanny Singer (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Maybe it's just this strange moment in time—in which...
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Online Event: Thirsty Thursday with Raven Harper and Shawna Kinard
Join us online at 6PM, Thursday, February 11! We'll welcome NIAD Studio...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: History in the Making
In this exhibition, Shawna Kinard and Raven Harper are exploring their relationship...
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True Identity, Selected By Patricia Iglesias Peco (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Memory is the thread that weaves these portraits together....
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Artist of the Month Series: We Are Creating Our History, Curated By Deatra Colbert, Felicia Griffin, and Dorrie Reid (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Black History Month is a time when I like to...
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Artist of the Month Series: Peter Harris, online exhibition
About the exhibition "I made all of these. Pink, green, blue: it's...
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AOM Series: Esmeralda Silva, online exhibition
IN PROGRESS em's workin on it! About the exhibition ...
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SPEED, Selected By Patrick Reed (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Pedal to the Metal Our music is fast....
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: My Rising Special Place, organized by Dorrie Reid and Mary Mortimer
On View at NIAD through January 29, 2021 From Dorrie Reid: "I've been...
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Favorite Recycled Nature, Selected By Jean McElvane (Online Exhibition)
About the exhibition My art is my children. I make what I...
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Last month's NIAD Windows Exhibition: Closing Of The Year, Curated by Jean McElvane, On View December 5-30
This is the sixth show in our new exhibition space NIAD Windows....
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NIAD's Holiday Gift Guide #2 (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Welcome back for the second edition of our Holiday...
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NIAD's Holiday Gift Guide #1 (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Sometimes when giving a gift, you want the form...
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NIAD Bookstore
Artists books, zines and publications made by NIAD Art Center artists and...
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Costume Store, Selected By Ari Banias (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Not exactly pretend, but the shimmering parallel worlds right...
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The Absence Of Evidence Is Not The Evidence Of Absence, Selected By Christalena Hughmanick (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This exhibition strings together graphic images developed by each...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Necesito Más Flores (I Need More Flowers), Curated by Maria Radilla
This is the the fifth show in our new exhibition space NIAD...
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Be Heard. Speak Up., Selected by Fenwick & West (online exhibition)
About the exhibition For more than five years, Bay Area based law...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition// Another Fine Mess Age: Anthony Grant X NIAD
This is the second show in our new exhibition space NIAD Windows....
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Necesito Más Flores, Selected by Maria Radilla (online exhibition)
About the exhibition (The following statement is transcribed in the original Spanish,...
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Carlota Rodriguez + Elena Rossi, Selected By Samantha Bittman
About the exhibition For this exhibition, I decided to focus on a...
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Words And Feeling, Selected By Nicole Shaffer (online exhibition)
About the exhibition When going through the NIAD archives, I was struck...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Weaving Circle, Organized by Circulo Tejido/Backstrap Club
This is the second show in our new exhibition space NIAD Windows....
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Draw Your Letters, Selected By Danny Floyd (online exhibition)
About the exhibition When I was in elementary school, we had to...
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Monochrome Markings, Selected By Jennifer Gilbert (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I selected these works as I have a real...
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Untitled, Wallhanging Cat Ouija Board, Selected By Aziz Yonuss (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I chose works and images that had nostalgic qualities...
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Road To Nowhere, Selected By Eric Shiner (Online Exhibition)
About the exhibition One of my favorite songs is "Road to Nowhere"...
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NIAD Windows Exhibition: Selections Of NIAD Work From The Joan Finton Art Collection
This is the first show in our new exhibition space NIAD Windows....
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Travel In Place - Pathways And Portals, Selected By Lena Gustafson (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This exhibition explores the diverse approaches to travel and...
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Families And Friends, Selected By Nakiesha White (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I talk to my journal about everything, and my...
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Lost In Translations*, Selected By Matthieu Morin (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Getting lost is our greatest freedom.Take a path without...
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Power and Praise and Powerful Prints, Selected By Halisi Noel-Johnson (online exhibition)
About the exhibition In my family we grew up learning a lot...
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This Is My Dream, Selected By Dorian Reid (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I'm thinking about the future, and I'm thinking about...
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Faces In The Crowd, Selected By Elizabeth Lalley (Online Exhibition)
About the exhibition In her essay “Joy,” Zadie Smith divulges that a...
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Transforming Forces, Selected By Gülşah Mursaloğlu (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As the blood seeped into her brain, she dreamed...
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Hands Up, Don’t Shoot! (The Fed Up/ Can't Take It Anymore Remix), Selected By Jennifer McCoy
About the exhibition (Gallerist's note: Six years ago, yes, six years ago....
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We Are The Creatures, Selected By Yana Sternberger-Moyé (online exhibition)
About the exhibition We Are The Creatures is a collection of work...
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Watch TV With Me, Selected By Zach Ozma (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I miss you, I’d like to do something easy...
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PODS, Selected By sam ho (online esxhibition)
About the exhibition pod mapping: a tool designed for accountability, care and...
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Cat As Muse, Cat As Fuse, Selected By Elena Passarello (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Most of the earliest artwork made by humans depicts...
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Let’s Go Away For A While, Selected By Caitlin McCormack (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Surrender to the warm current as it carries you...
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Cradle, Bump, Tap, Slap, Push, Selected By Brittney Leeanne Williams (online exhibition)
About the exhibition A nervous black triangle quietly extends its arm to...
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The House That Jack Built, Selected By Stephen W. Evans (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "The House That Jack Built" is an exhibition that...
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Let's Do The Time Warp Again, Selected By Boyang Hou (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "It's astounding; Time is fleeting; Madness takes its toll...
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The Weight of the World, Selected By Lauren Frances Evans (online exhibition)
About the exhibition A ceramic figure balances an ambiguous light green orb...
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Charged Particles, Selected By Kate Conlon (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Artists thinking about the parts and how they fit...
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Heart + Home, Selected By Kate Mothes (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As I was selecting work for this collection of...
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EVIL ROBOTS!, Selected By Miles Rodriguez (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Why did I pick this art theme? : EVIL...
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Sugar Babe, Selected By Abel Guzman (online exhibition)
About the exhibition While sitting at home during isolation I got warped...
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Nowhere Anywhere But Here, Selected By Scott MacLeod
About the exhibition Stumbling across a Heather Hamann painting while self-isolating, I...
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Modern Times: Matthew Langley
Selected work is on view in the group show "Another Fine Mess...
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Online Exhibition: It’s Time For Joy, Selected By Julie Mallis
About the exhibition I selected these works of art due to their...
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Movie Date, Selected By Katie Kimmel (online exhibition)
About the exhibition A man and woman take a car to the...
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The Wonderful Colorful World, Selected by NIAD’s Professional Practice Group
About the exhibition This is a show put together by the Professional...
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Mother, Selected By Jesus Herrera (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I did have a purpose when going through the...
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City Living, Selected By Andrew Holmquist
About the exhibition “City Living” explores how artists depict their experience of...
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On The Move, Selected By Evin Collis
About the exhibition "On the Move" indulges in the various sentiments and...
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I Love My Work, Selected By NIAD's Artist Advisory Committee (online exhibition)
About the exhibition So much depends upon a red house glazed with...
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Water Donky Visions, Selected By Nick Norman (online exhibition)
About the exhibition While I was looking through the NIAD archive picking...
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Night Vision, Selected By Christina Linden (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This is the slow, sleepy, darkest part of the...
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Encounters In A Landscape, Selected By Marjetica Potrč
About the exhibition While at the Headlands Center For the Arts in...
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Love is Here to Stay, Selected By Nancy Lim (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I love Sister Corita. In my taxonomy of the...
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RE:imagining DIS:place, Selected by Michelle N. Jones (online exhibition)
About the exhibition One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness,...
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The Eight Cats Also Eight Flowers, Selected By Claire Barliant (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I chose these art works because they make me...
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Two Of Swords, Selected By Shelli Quintos (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The premise of this show is rooted in ideas...
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Objects in Performance, Selected By Arianna Rodriguez (online exhibition)
About the exhibition When we think of performance art, we typically imagine...
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Leviathan, Selected By Ethan Gill (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The Leviathan’s great mass finds buoyancy in the chaotic...
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Everything You See is Me, Selected By Kristy Luck (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I selected these works to unfold like a personal...
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Contrast, Selected By Molly Joyce (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I greatly admire NIAD's wide-ranging collection, and was very...
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Know Your Rights, Selected By Chloe Crawford (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The original 1938 text of section 14(c) of the...
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Word Soup, Selected By Kelly Lloyd (online exhibition)
About the exhibition If this was a two person show, one person...
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Shift, Selected By Bri Beck (online exhibition)
About the exhibition These works each highlight an aesthetic that is very...
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The Whole Body, Selected By Alex Stark (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As I begin to discuss and search for representations...
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Whitney & Robyn Forever, Selected By Hannah Hiaasen (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This exhibition is dedicated to Whitney Houston and Robyn...
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Ends, Selected By Matthew Weston Taylor (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I chose works that I liked. These works all...
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Some Things Last a Long Time, Selected By Lisa Kehler (online exhibition)
About the exhibition With the recent death of Daniel Johnston, I’ve been...
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Zines + Chapbooks
We make a lot of zines. We, also, sell zines made by...
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Waving From The Future, Selected By Liz Koury (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Waving from the Future" is my online exhibition of...
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Place On The Mantel, Selected by castaneda/reiman (online exhibition)
About the exhibition For Place on the Mantel we chose work that we imagined...
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Detournement: A Coherent Vision, Selected By Greg Roberts
About the exhibition The depth and breadth of the work that is...
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From a Letter, Selected by Ramsay Kolber (online exhibition)
About the exhibition “Take pictures of own pictures through pictures of other...
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Travelogue, Selected By Prajakti Jayavant (online exhibition)
About the exhibition (This is a narrative collaboration between NJ (age 10)...
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Chameleon With A Kaleidoscope, Selected By Prajakti Jayavant (online exhibition)
About the exhibition A chameleon is a live painting. It exists in...
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Force Fields And Atmospheres, Selected By Matthew Pawlowski (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Viewing creative works which capture your attention, dissolve the...
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Glaze Words, Selected By Lisa Rybovich Crallé (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I organized this collection of works on paper based...
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Karen May, Untitled (coloring outside the lines), selected by Bob Linder (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Putting this (online) exhibition together was a difficult choice,...
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Note To Self, Selected By Lauren Davies (online exhibition)
About the exhibition About the urgency of communicating. And remembering. Plus making...
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Color Theories, Selected By David Buuck (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Perusing the NIAD collection can be overwhelming for the...
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Animals Are My Favorite People, Selected By Donald Smith (online exhibition)
About the exhibition In these challenging times I find great comfort in...
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Penmanships, Selected By Carolyn Lockhart Schoerner (online exhibition)
About the exhibition It began with admiring Karen May’s signature on the...
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A Novel., Selected By Anthony Campuzano (Online Exhibition)
About the exhibition There is a title card by Sara Malpass. There...
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40 Below, organized by Scott Ogden (online exhibition)
About the exhibition 40 Below is a celebration of NIAD's diverse roster of...
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Patterns Never Cry, Selected By Amy Spencer (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Patterns are a way to create order from chaos....
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How Does It Make You Feel?, Selected By Sonja Murphy (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The process of making and viewing art is influenced...
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We Must Cultivate Our Own Garden, Selected By David Wilson (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Score for curating this NIAD show: look at every...
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Faces Places, Selected By Sammy Kapp (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Paying homage to Agnes Varda’s final film, this grouping...
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gathering opening, Selected By Colter Jacobsen (Online Exhibition)
About the exhibition I followed the advice or Sara Malpass' word poem...
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The Writing on the Wall, Selected By Daniel Nevers (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As viewers, when we see text in contemporary art,...
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The Thing About Spring, Selected By Sophia Cosmadopoulos (online exhibition)
About the exhibition In The Thing About Spring, I selected work that...
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Donna is Sarah, Selected By Rose Dickson (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Artworks that build worlds. Whether artifact or key, these 15...
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Craft-tastic!, Selected By Shenny Cruces (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Defining craft at this time in the art world...
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Jeremy Burleson, Luis Estrada, and Anne Meade: Dreamscapes, Mind Maps, and Hearts’ Desires, Selected By Christine Wong Yap (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Jeremy Burleson, Luis Estrada, and Anne Meade share clear...
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Sunday Night (Impulse Buy), Selected By Cléa Massiani (online exhibition)
About the exhibition As the title clearly states, this selection of works...
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Mixed Messages, Selected By Chelsea Moylan (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Mixed Messages" focuses heavily on the idea of communication,...
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The Importance Of The Mark, Selected By Kerri Ammirata (online exhibition)
About the exhibition “A really good picture looks as if it’s happened...
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What I See, Selected By Eileen Noonan (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Before photography, portrait paintings were created with the goal,...
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Color Compulsion: Collective Rhythm In Color, Process, And Play, Selected By Poppy Dodge (online exhibition)
About the exhibition “I found I could say things with color and...
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Top Ten: A Tribute To The Greats, Selected By Brittany Baksa (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This exhibition features ten carefully selected works from the...
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Tropics of NIAD, Selected By Andrea Lounibos (online exhibition)
About the exhibition At dawn, wings flashing crimson then black. Toucan the...
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Possession, Selected By Tommy Brewer (online exhibition)
About the exhibition I am naming this show after a favorite movie...
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Necessary Gesture, Selected By Stacey Beach (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "All of these works strike me in their immediacy...
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True Grit, Selected By Lexa Walsh (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition These artists get to the essence of what makes...
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Specific Planet, Selected By Katherine Lam (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Clay captures the mark of the human hand unlike...
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Glaze Words, Selected by Skye Gilkerson (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition The paintings, ceramics, and works on paper in this...
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Encyclopedia, Selected By Brittany Kieler (online exhibition)
About the exhibition This group is a visual catalogue that spans a...
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Artist Books from All of the Art, Selected By Anne Beck (online exhibition)
About the Exhibition My waking life and dream-scape have been filled with...
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The Ides Of March, Selected By Jenni Crain (online exhibition)
About the exhibition Ides, an ancient calendrical measurement used by the Romans...
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Give the Poets Time, Selected By Julia Schwartz (online exhibition)
About the exhibition One of my favorite things about working with artists...
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A Queen's Tomb, Selected By Maryam Yousif (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Having looked through the amazing works in the NIAD...
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cats & dogs, Selected By Daniel Kapp (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "I find inspiration in the space between simplicity and...
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Personal Take, Selected by Adam Yokell (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "The subjects in Personal Take may be eclectic, but...
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Menagerie, Selected By Becca Cohn (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "As the technological world closes in, many humans find...
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Pizza!, Selected By Sophie Larrimore (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Searching through the immense NIAD catalogue my affinity was...
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Color and Symbol, Selected By Sarah Wertzberger (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "This show explores the use of artistic license when...
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Heavy Color, Selected By Ryan Schneider (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Color is heavy. Color lacks fear. Color reveals and...
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Eddysroom@NIAD, Selected By Austin Eddy (online exhibition)
About the exhibition The nightingale which from the top of it's branch,...
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All Power To The Animal, Selected By Steve Morrison (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "After the celebratory title image on Dorrie Reid's gorgeous...
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Resonance, Selected By Andy Cabic (online exhibition)
About the exhibition It was a true joy exploring all the art...
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In the Field, Selected By Margot Werner (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "As I selected work for this online exhibition, the...
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Singular, Selected By SlingShot Alpha Art Studio & Gallery (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Singular is an exhibition curated by the creative team...
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FLUX, Selected By Danny Joe Rose III (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "FLUX gathers a diverse body of work incorporating traditional...
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Reaching Out to You, Reaching Out to Me, Selected By Sarah-Dawn Albani (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "The work in this collection muses over the figure....
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Prismatic Visions, Selected By Bonanza (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "Prismatic Visions brings together a collection of brightly colored...
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Petrichor, Selected By Ingrid Alonso-Rodriguez (online exhibition)
About the exhibition "My process for selecting these pieces was to not...
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HOME., Selected By Amy Hargreaves (online exhibition)
About this exhibition “It's the familiar safe space where we find comfort...
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Crooked Teeth, Selected By Brett Flanigan (online exhibition)
About the exhibition “For this exhibition, I have selected works that are...
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Jewelry + Fashion
Jewelry, accessories, garments and wearables made by NIAD Art Center artists. NIAD is an...
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Become a NIAD Art Center Supporter!
You can easily become a NIAD Art Center supporter. It comes with...
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All the Art
When you own a piece of NIAD art, you connect with the unique...
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Sculptures
Sculptures made by NIAD Art Center artists. NIAD is an arts...
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Works On Paper
Drawings and other works on paper by NIAD Art Center artists. NIAD...
